It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Unlike old age or cancer, no one anticipates a suicide. They simply left without a chance to get things in order.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“In my old age, I see that life is often more fantastic and terrible than stories we believed as children, and that… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is… — Bob Wells Copy Share Image
“Strengthen your commitment to Christ—now. Don’t wait until the storms of temptation, or sickness, or old age threaten to blow you off-course;… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate.… — Linda Gillard Copy Share Image
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Remember. If the rune were a word, it would have been that one, but there was more meaning to it than any… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
“I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
Do not tell me you are too old. Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they will ignore you. — Nate Copy Share Image
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall. — Li Shangyin Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
![“Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to support me in these contentions. I lost her thirty years ago [I was a child then]--nevertheless, ever living in my memory, she follows me from age to age. She suffered with me in my…” quote by Samuel Smiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/samuel-smiles-2037_life-lessons_whilst-writing-all-this-i-have-had-in-my_2508705.jpg)
